Ch.7: Secrets Revealed

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the city….

"Sir" said a soldier, reporting to his serge " all civilians and wounded men have been taken by the medical team. Casualty rates are low, and our weapons and supplies have been torched. We were lucky this time Sir."

"Lucky?" the sergeant scoffed " That is how you would describe our situation Mr. Jones? There is no luck, there is war! And those blasted Loonatics are a plague that need to be wiped clean."

"I always suspected that they would turn on us one day. Well now we're going to eradicate them, once and for all!"


Meanwhile, inside of the abandoned warehouse, Ace groggily woke up when he heard the shuffling of Tech's footsteps. Looking up slightly, the rabbit could see that the coyote had his nose buried in some boxes nearby.

"Tech, what are doing?" asked Ace.

"Just looking through some of these boxes" Tech replied " Whoever owned this warehouse has done some major studying. All the papers in here talk about bio-mechanics, cloning, genetic codes, and…,"

"Yawn" Lexi replied " If Duck were here he definitely make a comment on how boring that sounded."

Ace slightly chuckled at Lexi's joke, and before Tech could fire off a retort back, alarm suddenly caught their ears as the sound of the main warehouse doors started to open.

Quickly, Ace ordered his team to retreat and hide somewhere in the dark. His body was positioned and ready to strike, just in case anyone who entered the warehouse was a threat.

It turned out to be a false alarm, as just a lone scientist person entered, stuttering nervously as he walked.

"Gotta burn it! Gotta burn it! Got to get out of town!"

"Yah!" he suddenly screamed when he saw the outline of Slam's body standing out among the boxes. Being as big as he was, the Tasmanian Devil had trouble hiding very well.

Well, now that he knew someone was here, Ace stood up and signaled the others to come on out of the shadows. Soon, the shaky scientist was staring at almost all of the Loonatics team with fear in his eyes.

"You…" he said, trying to be brave " What are all of you doing here? How did you find me? Have you all come to destroy your creator? Or is this all about your missing friend?"

The Loonatics all looked at each other for a moment when Ace got the idea. Whoever this scientist was, he thought they were the evil them. His creations right? Ace decided to play along with the mistake, and have this goon admit more.

"Yes this is about our friend" snarled Ace, his team stood quiet as he played along " What haven't you been telling us Doc?!"

"It's Surgio" the scientist corrected the rabbit " And I got rid of your friend because he was useless to your team."

"That's not what we think Doc" said Ace, using the hated nickname again " Tell us the story. Now!"

"Very well" Surgio sighed " as I told you all before, my name is Paul Surgio. I was commissioned to make bio-mechanical clones to replace the Loonatics so that this town would have heroes once more. You five are meant to be the defenders of the city, since the real ones are who knows where."

"You seemed perfect at first, but there were flaws, forcing you to go over the edge. You became killers instead of defenders, just like your friend. He was the first clone."

"Tell me more," said Ace.

"Back then, the real Loonatics were still the defenders of the city" said Surgio " people loved and respected their power. Some respected that power to much, wanting to possess it for themselves."

"Danger Duck's DNA was the easiest to acquire. We started the experiments right away, never stopping until we got the perfect clone. His powers were the trickiest part, but in the end, the goal was achieved."

"However, he proved to unstable to use, so we had to get rid of him. The cloning process was put on hold after that, until the Loonatics decide to fly off to space and never return to the city they loved."

"Interesting" said Ace " so that's how it all began."

"Now that you know" said Surgio " please let me leave in peace. I have to burn these files and leave this city before…,"

"Not so fast Doc" said Ace, dropping his evil act, and clutching the scientist's shoulders in his grip "First you're going to tell us everything you know about these evil creations of yours and what they want with our friend. 'Cause we plan to get him back."